US Patent Issued to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on Sept. 30 for "Terminal-equipped electric wire and connector-equipped electric wire" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,638, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Mie, Japan), SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan) and SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Terminal-equipped electric wire and connector-equipped electric wire" was invented by Yoshitaka Ikeda (Mie, Japan), Takuji Otsuka (Mie, Japan), Kosuke Sone (Mie, Japan), Keisuke Kondo (Mie, Japan), Takahiro Maruyama (Mie, Japan), Yasuto Takeda (Mie, Japan) and Tomoyuki Kondo (Mie, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is an object to provide a technique with which the length of a portion of a terminal-equipped electric wire disposed in a cavity of a c...